What I Was - hardcover

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2007 Near-new condition. Small remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.95. Tight spine, bright pages. 209 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis In 1962, a 16-year-old boy is dropped off by his father at a boarding school on the windswept coast of East Anglia. It is a model of its kind the rooms are freezing, the food is disgusting, the older boys are sadistic, and the masters are the ineffectual, damaged castoffs of a dying Empire. But the boy is used to the drill and well practiced at detached dreaming, imagining himself someone else, somewhere else. Until one day, falling behind one of the regular runs along the coast, he meets Finn. Finn seems like a character from a novel, or a dream. Dressed in clothes that look the way they did a century before, Finn lives alone with his cat in a tiny fishermans hut. The two become friends, the boy risking scandalous rumour and expulsion from school. But the idyll cannot last, disaster invades from all sides, and the boy discovers that nothing has been what he believed. What I Was will cement Meg Rosoffs reputation as a writer of extraordinary skill and sensitivity, who recreates with uncanny exactness the passions of youth. Washington Post: This whole novel is built on a surprise (which caught me totally unaware), but beyond the surprise lies the beauty of what it means to live without junk in your life, only essential beauty, together with the reminder that all of itthe junk and the beautywill be gone in a twinkling. This is a lovely book. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Viking Press, 2007

Rosoff, Meg:

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2007 Near-new condition. Small remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.95. Tight spine, bright pages. 209 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis In 1962, a 16-year-old boy is dropped off by his father at a boarding school on the windswept coast of East Anglia. It is a model of its kind the rooms are freezing, the food is disgusting, the older boys are sadistic, and the masters are the ineffectual, damaged castoffs of a dying Empire. But the boy is used to the drill and well practiced at detached dreaming, imagining himself someone else, somewhere else. Until one day, falling behind one of the regular runs along the coast, he meets Finn. Finn seems like a character from a novel, or a dream. Dressed in clothes that look the way they did a century before, Finn lives alone with his cat in a tiny fishermans hut. The two become friends, the boy risking scandalous rumour and expulsion from school. But the idyll cannot last, disaster invades from all sides, and the boy discovers that nothing has been what he believed. What I Was will cement Meg Rosoffs reputation as a writer of extraordinary skill and sensitivity, who recreates with uncanny exactness the passions of youth. Washington Post: This whole novel is built on a surprise (which caught me totally unaware), but beyond the surprise lies the beauty of what it means to live without junk in your life, only essential beauty, together with the reminder that all of itthe junk and the beautywill be gone in a twinkling. This is a lovely book. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Viking Press, 2007

[EAN: 9780670018444], Fine, [PU: Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.], 9780670018444 MEG ROSOFF WHAT I WAS, Jacket, Near-new condition. Small remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.95. Tight spine, bright pages. 209 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis In 1962, a 16-year-old boy is dropped off by his father at a boarding school on the windswept coast of East Anglia. It is a model of its kind the rooms are freezing, the food is disgusting, the older boys are sadistic, and the masters are the ineffectual, damaged castoffs of a dying Empire. But the boy is used to the drill and well practiced at detached dreaming, imagining himself someone else, somewhere else. Until one day, falling behind one of the regular runs along the coast, he meets Finn. Finn seems like a character from a novel, or a dream. Dressed in clothes that look the way they did a century before, Finn lives alone with his cat in a tiny fisherman¿s hut. The two become friends, the boy risking scandalous rumour and expulsion from school. But the idyll cannot last, disaster invades from all sides, and the boy discovers that nothing has been what he believed. What I Was will cement Meg Rosoff¿s reputation as a writer of extraordinary skill and sensitivity, who recreates with uncanny exactness the passions of youth. Washington Post: This whole novel is built on a surprise (which caught me totally unaware), but beyond the surprise lies the beauty of what it means to live without junk in your life, only essential beauty, together with the reminder that all of it¿the junk and the beauty¿will be gone in a twinkling. This is a lovely book.